The most visited countries in the world

May 2, 2022 Jan. 2, 2020

More than 1 billion and half of international tourists travel to all continents of the world every year.

Find out here which are the most popular and visited countries in the world according to the World Tourism Organization data.

The statistical data below is for 2020 - a year strongly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

#	Country	Tourists/year
1	France	117 109 000
2	Mexico	51 128 000
3	United States	45 037 000
4	Italy	38 419 000
5	Spain	36 410 000
6	Hungary	31 641 000
7	China	30 402 000
8	Croatia	21 608 000
9	Turkey	15 971 000
10	Denmark	15 595 000
11	Austria	15 091 000
12	Germany	12 449 000
13	United Kingdom	11 101 000
14	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	8 612 000
15	United Arab Emirates	8 084 000
16	Greece	7 406 000
17	Netherlands	7 265 000
18	Russian Federation	6 359 000
19	Macao SAR, China	5 897 000
20	Andorra	5 207 000
21	Romania	5 023 000
22	Bulgaria	4 973 000
23	Malaysia	4 333 000
24	Portugal	4 208 000
25	Japan	4 115 800
26	Indonesia	4 053 000
27	South Africa	3 886 600
28	Puerto Rico	3 882 000
29	Vietnam	3 837 000
30	Belarus	3 598 000
31	Hong Kong SAR, China	3 569 000
32	Ukraine	3 382 000
33	Latvia	3 204 000
34	Morocco	2 802 000
35	Dominican Republic	2 748 000
36	Singapore	2 742 000
37	Albania	2 658 000
38	Belgium	2 584 000
39	Korea, Rep.	2 519 000
40	Lithuania	2 284 000
41	Kuwait	2 161 000
42	Kazakhstan	2 035 000
43	Tunisia	2 012 000
44	Sweden	1 957 000
45	Bahrain	1 909 000
46	Australia	1 828 000
47	Bahamas, The	1 794 500
48	Estonia	1 695 000
49	Iran, Islamic Rep.	1 550 000
50	Georgia	1 513 000
51	Philippines	1 483 000
52	Norway	1 397 000
53	Colombia	1 396 000
54	Jamaica	1 329 700
55	Cambodia	1 306 000
56	Jordan	1 240 000
57	Slovenia	1 216 000
58	Costa Rica	1 146 500
59	Peru	1 119 000
60	Cuba	1 086 000
61	Paraguay	1 077 000
62	Brunei Darussalam	1 071 000
63	New Zealand	996 000
64	Myanmar	903 000
65	Finland	896 000
66	Lao PDR	886 400
67	Oman	869 000
68	Azerbaijan	796 000
69	Malta	718 000
70	El Salvador	707 000
71	Honduras	669 000
72	Cote d'Ivoire	668 000
73	Cayman Islands	660 000
74	Panama	647 000
75	Zimbabwe	639 000
76	Guatemala	594 000
77	Algeria	591 000
78	Qatar	582 000
79	Maldives	555 000
80	Sri Lanka	540 000
81	Luxembourg	525 000
82	Ethiopia	518 000
83	Zambia	502 000
84	Iceland	488 000
85	Belize	487 000
86	Togo	482 000
87	Nicaragua	474 000
88	Uganda	473 000
89	Serbia	446 000
90	St. Lucia	432 500
91	Antigua and Barbuda	384 500
92	Armenia	375 000
93	Turks and Caicos Islands	370 400
94	Montenegro	351 000
95	Eswatini	345 300
96	Guam	328 000
97	Bolivia	323 300
98	Mauritius	316 000
99	St. Kitts and Nevis	301 400
100	Gambia, The	246 000
101	Nepal	230 000
102	Grenada	217 000
103	Bosnia and Herzegovina	197 000
104	Namibia	187 100
105	Cabo Verde	180 000
106	Fiji	168 000
107	Monaco	159 000
108	Trinidad and Tobago	141 000
109	Dominica	140 000
110	Seychelles	124 500
111	North Macedonia	118 000
112	West Bank and Gaza	93 000
113	French Polynesia	89 400
114	Madagascar	87 100
115	Guyana	86 400
116	Niger	85 000
117	British Virgin Islands	83 000
118	Vanuatu	82 400
119	Burkina Faso	67 000
120	Mongolia	66 900
121	Liechtenstein	58 400
122	Bermuda	51 400
123	Papua New Guinea	39 000
124	New Caledonia	31 000
125	Bhutan	29 800
126	Moldova	29 000
127	Samoa	23 900
128	Palau	18 400
129	Chad	10 400
130	Comoros	7 000
131	Solomon Islands	4 400
132	American Samoa	900

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